The Santillana codesys

This book examines the Santillana Codes legal instruments which form a distinct class of uniquely African civil codes and which are still in force today in a legal arc that extends from the Maghreb to the Sahel Stigall presents the history of Santillana s seminal legislative effort and provides a comparative analysis of the substance of those codes illuminating commonalities between Islamic law and European legal systems The Santillana Codes The Civil Codes of Tunisia Morocco and Mauritania